Wednesday, August 7, 2019

white supremacy


This was written in response to an article in HuffPost about white supremacy.

The article equates white supremacy with white nationalism.  They’re not the same.  White supremacy says that white people are superior to other people. 

A white nationalist, and I admit there are probably varieties out there, says that when the United States was mostly white (90% when I was a kid), we did pretty good.  We were the richest nation in the world, we felt safe, and we had the best schools in the world.

Since 1965, our immigration system has focused almost entirely on bringing minorities into our country, about 2 million a year and that’s just those who came legally.  Now we are over 40% minority.

We are also now $22 trillion in debt, just at the federal level, we don’t feel safe, and our schools are average or mediocre on the world stage.

White people in general don’t hate blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims.  They do reject the government’s attempts to make this a black, Hispanic, Muslim country.

Mark Steyn is quoted very briefly.  I’ve read some of his books.  I would really like to see his quotes in context.  But he raises a good point.

If you read the Preamble to the Constitution, it says that our government exists to form a more perfect union and to insure domestic tranquility for We, the people.  Our government exists for the sake of the citizens of the United States.  It is to seek and promote their welfare first.  Just like you take care of your family before all the other kids on the block.  It doesn’t mean that you hate all the other kids, but your first responsibility is to your own family.  You wouldn’t give your kids’ college fund to provide housing for the homeless.  Is that bad?  Our government is more concerned about citizens of other countries than the citizens of its own.  That is wrong.

Lastly, your article quotes the SPLC as an authority on hate groups in our country.  I have read of a number of organizations that are definitely not hate groups that the SPLC thinks are.  It also says that there are 148 documented hate groups devoted to white supremacism, an increase of 50% since 2014.  Maybe each group has three members.  The left likes to charge people and groups with hate in an effort to stop them from talking.  It’s hard to defend yourself when the media generally takes the side of the accuser. 

Guess what?  In a free country, people are free to hate.  The only antidote to hate that I know of is Christianity that gives people a command and a reason to love other people.  Our country has officially turned its back on religion and declared itself a secular country, but secularism has no answer for hate or evil.  It can only make more laws and hire more police.